Music Quotes

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.

Well-written words are music.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Music is your guide.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.